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Thread: North vs: South, The Humbling of LadyNorth

  1. 12-11-2007 08:02 PM #1
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    Default North vs: South, The Humbling of LadyNorth

    Yep I said it, I have been humbled.

    As some of you know I am trucking now in the interior of BC. I came down here thinking ahhhh, nice short, mild winters.
    Right!
    Not a day goes by I don't wish for the North. I've never spent so much time slipping and sliding around. The excess traffic sucks!
    I came down 2 hills today with my tactor and 2 trailers each pointing in their own different direction. I nearly freakin died of heart failure. I was driving cautiously!
    It used to be if the drives kicked out on me on a hill or I spun a bit it was a bit exciting, woot the road is a bit slick today. Now....? If I go straight the whole way up a hill I'm like... whoa.. that was weird?!
    Not to make light of what I did up North and what Wildkat still does on a daily basis, but its a different set of challenges, some that I would choose over what I have now ANY day.
    I still may end up back home one day, and when I do, I will GLADY hit the road up there and feel a hell of a lot safer doing so!

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  2. 12-12-2007 01:42 AM #2
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  3. 12-12-2007 04:28 AM #3
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    Just remember what your pulling....

    Trucking around with a lightly loaded refer 1/2 the time & M/T the other half, on cold snow/pavement... That was easy, now your challenged.

    Bitterly cold for 2 weeks, now -1 with those big wet snow flakes...

    Still cold in Ft Nelson tho.

    Sometimes when my trains are M/T on the slick ice, I just have to relax and drive rather than try and hold it back on the hills ( know what I mean ? )

    Sometimes loaded too :wink: Just remember, Only the Best, can handle trains in the winter. You'll be fine, carry spare underwear lol

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  4. 12-12-2007 01:05 PM #4
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    Ah LNS, I'll take -40 over -1 anyday of the week, at least at -40 the weather is stable & you don't get those aweful snowstorm & freezing snizzle

    I don't envy you one bit my girl, just remember take her cool, don't be afraid to go slow, I hear where yer at, spent 10 years hikin super B's over the Rocks twice per week...I HATE traffic, still, every time I see a motorhome I want to run it off the road...TERRORISTS man terrorists!!!
    Be safe out there Lady, be happy to see you up in the frozen wilds any day

    Am presently shutdown at Radway (on way to Ft Mac) huge snowstorm...got conned into a Ft Mac trip after I got back from Yellowknife this morning...ya know the kind....please...oh PLEASE... LOL so here I sit waiting out a snowstorm that threatens to blow me & my Rocky off the road...really sucks large....

    Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says "oh crap, she's up!"
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  5. 12-12-2007 07:58 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by roadhog
    The hog whimpers into the corner, Before the Wrath of the Lady stands on his nuts.... Shame, Shame...

    If, she only knew what you said.... Toasted Hog.... :wink:

    Your welcome Buddy

    I smell BBQ...


    But, seriously Turk, It sucks, It's hard truckin, you know where and what I do, it's not easy, among men, it takes big balls to go and haul the "off road" loads that I do.

    Your at a point I was at one time, I used to get so nervous before work because I knew the roads were "really" BAD (you know my job can't wait) and well, sometimes, I was soo upset I would "dry heave" before work, knowing I could kill someone or die myself...

    I got thru it, now I say to myself, I AM A BETER TRUCKER than the guy who will be doing it if I quit....

    As always, Ron :wink:
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  6. 12-13-2007 07:14 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by COLT

    Your at a point I was at one time, I used to get so nervous before work because I knew the roads were "really" BAD (you know my job can't wait) and well, sometimes, I was soo upset I would "dry heave" before work, knowing I could kill someone or die myself...
    You nerd, I don't get nervous like that, I just don't like it. lol The first time I slid down the hill I felt a little ill but the second time it weren't near so bad.
    It just makes me not enjoy my job like I used to. Course there are other variables to that too.. grr. Managers suck.

    Yes WK, I know that 'oh please' I'm still stuck in a hotel room in Quesnel running to PG thanks to that exact same 'oh please, PLEASE, what can we do for you PLEASEEEE'
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  7. 12-13-2007 07:16 AM #7
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    Hog: Coward
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    Dayum right. Only thing that skeerz me is a wimmin.

    ...spesshly a fine-looker like you!

    You remind me of one of them Wolf hybrids.
    You forget they can eat your gizzard at any moment.

    Yeah...you wanna take a bite r-i-g-h-t n-o-w...doncha..
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    LNS, give yourself time to adjust to the different conditions, you'll do just fine.... If you can survive the North you can survive this too..

    Roadhog: yer a goofball...

    Shoulda seen what I had to go thru yesterday...imagine 24 hours to do a 500 mile trip....

    Bad accident, tanker & a bus tangled, rumour has it the tanker was at fault, but that could be just talk...I'll reserve judgement...

    Hwy was shut down for nearly 8 hours, 25 hurt, no fatalities (thank god). But that road is literally "the highway of death". I HATE that road & avoid it whenever possible. Twice per year (my usual) is too many...

    Then finally got back to the city & it's 0C, sloppy day...my truck is white & brown with a purple undercoat!!
    No point in washing it till days off...just a waste of $100

    Take care out there, likely off to Yellowknife again tonight, so gotta get some shut eye...Be safe out there!

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  10. 12-13-2007 03:39 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyNorthStar

    You nerd, I don't get nervous like that
    Fine then, just trying to help you feel better.

    I'm serious about the spare underwear tho... :wink:
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    she called you a nerd..
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    But she called you a coward :wink:



    But she knows I take this, to some really "stupid" places... Tow cats/tractors pull me up/ lower me down... I ain't no nerd



    One lane bridges on two way roads...





    Narrow roads..... (this guy died cause he was on the wrong road chanel)



    And I drive on the Beaufort Sea in mid April....





    I'm not a nerd :wink:
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    Quote Originally Posted by COLT


    I'm not a nerd :wink:


    I knew that... :P
    ...besides...a nerd would get that GPS fixed.
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  14. 12-13-2007 10:20 PM #14
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    A couple pics from today, there were actually 8 wrecks in total I passed, some happened right in front of me, some right behind me.

    Yea, hes jogging, in a snow storm, in the lane, and won't move over for nuthin.



    Oops



    I like how the dome light was still on.



    This was a bobtail, slid down the hill and ended up on its roof. Happened right behind me.

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    Lady North vs. the South :shock:

    Don't you think it's weird, All these accidents happening around you ?

    I don't blame that guy for running...

    Lady North's Spedo ( That colour kinda looks, "trimacish" )
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    Good one COLT !

    heh heh heh heh heh heh heh
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    Trimac indeed.
    The Alaska Highway is my playground!
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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyNorthStar
    I passed, some happened right in front of me, some right behind me.

    I guess she didn't have enough coffee to enjoy my sense of humor ?
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    I think she just ate her young.
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    Well LNS, aren't they just the pair of jokers, eh! LOL
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